The Bostonians paying the Excise-Man

What I Learned Part 1

• Tarring is pouring boiling hot tar on a victim's skin
• Feathering is laying feathers all over the victim's body onto the tar
• Tarring and Feathering was used for public humiliation
• You could sign a sheet saying you would follow or get tarred and feathered
• The protesters were seen as violent thugs to the British

What I Learned Part 2

• The victims were British officials and american merchants
• The colonist protesters didn't like the Tea Act or the Stamp Act
• The colonists did this under Liberty trees
• The people doing this to you could have been your neighbors

My Reaction

• When I first found out about tarring and feathering, I was terrified.
• Having boiling hot tar poured on you does not feel good at all!
• Then, a bunch of feathers are lathered on for humiliation.
• I would have just signed the sheet instead of going through that torture.
• What were the victims thinking? They should follow all the other colonists.

Works Cited

• http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6806/
• http://herb.ashp.cuny.edu/items/show/1169
• #6 on the playlist Video: http://wn.com/tarring_and_feathering
• McDougal Littell: American History book